Greetings From New Orleans !
Not sure how to address this issue , but every boat and for that matter shsip I either worked or served on , EVERYONE on board referred to the tolet as The Head .
Maybe I was just not on the right vessels ??
Smooth Sailing !
Ted Davisson
WA-4141
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Originally Posted by Frank X. Prudent
I forget which captain it was on the ISLAND QUEEN, but dad said this captain would refer to the kitchen as the "cookhouse." On "Big Liz" deckhands slept in a room called the bunkhouse forward of the wheel on one side and on the other guard was the kitchen. The captain would give an order something like this when comin' in for a landing, " Back 'er slow on the bunkhouse side, 'n stop her on the cookhouse side."
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